Early in the boot process the root filesystem is mounted read-only. This could explain the "Read-only filesystem" errors. Of course , while / is ro , nothing is supposed to want to write , so there is a problem. If you have not been doing any "tweaking" to init scripts I suggest you file a bug report.
On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 09:19 -0500, Ed Jabbour wrote: > On Saturday 19 February 2005 07:42 am, Luke Albers wrote: > > emerge the newest gawk again or use -xml > > > > On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 14:13 +0200, Ivan Yosifov wrote: > > > The output of 'mount' and 'cat /etc/fstab' ? > > > > > > On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 06:28 -0500, Ed Jabbour wrote: > > > > At boot, I get the following after "Caching service dependencies": > > > > > > > > ======================== > > > > gawk: /lib/rscripts/awk/gendepends.awk. 440 > > > > (FILENAME=- FNR=184) fatal: can't rediredt to > > > > /var/lib/init.d/deptree (Read-only filesystem) > > > > > > > > ln: cannot remove '/var/lib/init.d/started/checkroot: (Read-only > > > > filesystem) ln: creating symbolic link > > > > /var/lib/init.d/started/hostname > > > > to /etc/init.d/hostname (Read-only filesystem) > > > > ========================== > > > > followed by similar lines for modules, checkfs and localmount. > > > > > > > > Then, e2fsck cannot run - "mounted file system", "Give root pswd" or > > > > Control D. I booted from a Knoppix disk, ran fsck and no errors. If > > > > I give the root paswd or Control D, the system seems to run OK. I'm > > > > in it now. > > Re-emerged gawk 3.1.3-r2 and rebooted. Same problem. > > [Sat Feb 19] edj:~$ mount > /dev/hda7 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime) > none on /proc type proc (rw) > none on /sys type sysfs (rw) > none on /dev type ramfs (rw) > none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw) > /dev/hda6 on /mnt/hda6 type ext3 (rw,noatime) > none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) > none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) > > [Sat Feb 19] edj:~$ cat /etc/fstab > /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ext2 noauto,noatime > > 0 2 > /dev/hda5 none swap sw > > 0 2 > /dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6 ext3 noatime > > 0 2 > /dev/hda7 / ext3 noatime > > 1 1 > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user,exec > > 0 0 > /dev/cdrw /mnt/cdrw iso9660 noauto,ro,user,exec > > 0 0 > /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera vfat noauto,users > > 0 0 > 192.168.1.102:/Volumes/Alien /mnt/alien nfs noauto,rw,user,exec > > 0 0 > none /proc proc defaults > > 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults > > 0 0 > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- Ivan Yosifov. -- [email protected] mailing list
